I will ensure the pmidi.dll is there, and if not that .csoundrc is fixed up to match the installation.

Probably happen this weekend or early next week.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Beck 
>Sent: Feb 10, 2006 12:09 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Csnd] new cs5 rtmidi flag
>
>Istvan Varga wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 09 February 2006 10:12, Bill Beck wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>So using the new Csound5, attempting realtime midi in, and it does not 
>>>work with my old csound5-beta command flags.
>>>I used to just type -M99 to get an error and list of all midi devices, 
>>>but that doesn't work anymore.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Actually, the Gogins package for Win32 does not include the PortMidi
>>plugin (pmidi.dll) for some reason. While using the native MME plugin
>>instead may be OK, -+rtmidi=mme could have been added to .csoundrc.
>>
>>  
>>
>>>-+rtmidi=PortMidi runs CS5 but no midi is  
>>>getting in and no mention of what device is being used.
>>>Also tried this:
>>>csound -W -+rtaudio=PortAudio -odevaudio21  -+rtmidi=portMIDI -M0 -b16 
>>>-B64 my.orc my.sco
>>>
>>>Runs, but again no midi gets through. Also tried all combos of 
>>>-+rtmidi=0 or -+rtmidi=M0 and get no errors, but do get CS running 
>>>without MIDI getting through.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>How is that possible ? You should get errors like this one (replace
>>'portMIDI' with whatever you have specified for -+rtmidi, unless it
>>is something like null, winmm, or mme):
>>
>>error: -+rtmidi='portMIDI': unknown module
>> *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
>>
>>I tested it and the error is printed and performance is aborted.
>>  
>>
>
>I'll double check that the command line I quoted ...
>
>csound -W -+rtaudio=PortAudio -odevaudio21  -+rtmidi=portMIDI -M0 -b16 -B64 my.orc my.sco
>
>... works as I described.
>
>
>Csound5 for windows (as an installer at csound.srouceforge.net  
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/csound/Csound5.00_win32.exe?download )
>does come with a portmidi.dll in the main \bin directory.
>
>If portMidi is not possible in Windows, then why is the dll there? Also, 
>future distributions for windows ought to, as you suggest, add 
>-+rtmidi=mme to the .csoundrc. Would have saved me a few hours of 
>frustration (which after ten years with Csound I'm used to).
>
>-Bill B
>
>
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